The dung and urine of the Zebu is especially important in the list. As a supposed medical treatment Īyurveda and Siddha medicine use various animal excreta in various forms. Casu martzu is a cheese that uses the digestive processes of live maggots to help ferment and break down the cheese's fats. Several beverages are made using the feces of animals, including but not limited to Kopi luwak, panda tea, insect tea, and Black Ivory Coffee. The feces of the rock ptarmigan is used in Urumiit, which is a delicacy in some Inuit cuisine. Other species may eat feces under certain conditions.Ĭoprophagia by humans In cuisine Some animal species eat feces as a normal behavior, in particular lagomorphs, which do so to allow tough plant materials to be digested more thoroughly by passing twice through the digestive tract. In humans, coprophagia has been described since the late 19th century in individuals with mental illnesses and in some sexual acts, such as the practices of anilingus and felching where sex partners insert their tongue into each other's anus and ingest biologically significant amounts of feces. Coprophagy refers to many kinds of feces-eating, including eating feces of other species (heterospecifics), of other individuals (allocoprophagy), or one's own (autocoprophagy) – those once deposited or taken directly from the anus. The word is derived from the Ancient Greek: κόπρος copros, 'feces' and φαγεῖν phagein, 'to eat'. A female Oriental latrine fly ( Chrysomya megacephala) feeds on fecesĬoprophagia ( / ˌ k ɒ p r ə ˈ f eɪ dʒ i ə/) or coprophagy ( / k ə ˈ p r ɒ f ə dʒ i/) is the consumption of feces.

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